AP US History Chapter 19 Questions

Southerners were especially enraged by abolitionists' funding of antislavery settlers in Kansas because

Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska had seemed to imply that Kansas would become a slave state.

Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor because

Sumner had used abusive language to describe the South and a South Carolina senator.

T/F: After Congressman Preston Brooks nearly beat Senator Charles Sumner to death on the Senate floor, South Carolina reeected Brooks and Massachusetts reelected Sumner

True

T/F: Although Republican John C. Fremont lost the presidency to Democrat James Buchanan, the election of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new antislavery party

True

T/F: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle tom's Cabin proved to be the most influential publication in arousing the northern and European publics against the evils of slavery

True

T/F: Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America during the "lame-duck" period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration

True

T/F: The South was enraged by many northerners' celebration of John Brown as a martyr

True

T/F: The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckenridge in the South

True

T/F: The violence in Kansas was provoked by both racial abolitionists and militant proslavery forces who sought to control the territory

True

As submitted to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution was designed to

bring Kansas into the Union, while making it impossible to prohibit slavery there.

The financial and economic collapse of 1857 increased northern anger at the South's refusal to support

higher tariffs and free western homesteads for farmers.

T/F: Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South stirred slaveholders' wrath by predicting that the slaves would eventually rise up in violent revolt

False

T/F: In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticism forced Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery question in the West

False

T/F: Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid the Civil War

False

T/F: Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party convention in 1860 when the southerners nominated Vice President John Breckenridge for president

False

T/F: Pro-southern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state

False

T/F: Senator Stephen Douglas's support for the proslavery Lecompton Constitution demonstrated that the Democratic party was completely beholden to its southern wing

False

T/F: The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to permit slavery

False

T/F: The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the North gave him a majority of the total popular vote despite winning almost no votes in the South

False

Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise primarily because

it left open the possibility that slavery could expand south into Mexico, Central America, or the Caribbean.

The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into violent antislavery politics by

killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because

northerners' celebration of Brown as a martyr seemed to indicate their support for slave insurrection.

During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party

opposed the expansion of slavery but did not threaten to attack slavery in the South.

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court

ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in any of the territories because slaves were private property of which owners could not be deprived

Within two months after the election of Lincoln

seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.

Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that

slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the South.

In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party

split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate.

The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for

the dramatic rise of the Republican party.

The crucial Freeport Question that Lincoln demanded that Douglas answer during their debates was whether

the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision.

Harriet Beecher's Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

was strongly rooted in religiously based antislavery sentiments.